Publish

Type in your topic and explore the recent Reddit posts for inspiration. It won’t be long before you find a question with lots of great replies. This is a great place to start.

Check out how many topics you can pull up from Reddit about “dj equipment”. There’s no need to click through pages of Google search to find an interesting article idea.

There are thousands of real questions to extract using this free tool. Try Faqfox.com to start your next article idea.

Publishing a new article is beneficial for your website. Some studies say that publishing to your website’s blog is more effective than outreach marketing (ie, guest blogging). It generates leads and can help conversions. The more pages you have published, the more Google search will index. This means your website will become more visible to more people.

Just be careful not to publish articles that have little meaning or purpose. If the article lacks substance, don’t be surprised if your visitors don’t want to stay long on your website.

You can ask yourself, “What is the benefit of this article to my audience?” or “Does this article enrich my audience and answer a simple question clearly?”

Publish longer articles

If you don’t have the time to write daily, then work on a single large article every week. Add onto it, paragraph by paragraph, section by section.

The minimum length for this type of article should be 1,200 words to 3,000 words. In fact, some of the most highly ranked pages on the web have more than 1,200 words.

Use a good article title and write a unique meta description.

Again, content that is long isn’t necessarily valuable.

This is why the next tip focuses on making sure the content you publish answers “questions” which genuinely matter to your audience.

Focus on Value

What does value mean to you?

Consider how you could make every article you publish valuable to your readers. For some people, they want to feel something when they visit a particular website. That could be value to this audience: icanhazcheezburger

To another audience, value means “a well-researched article with lots of quotes of successful people in business”. That could be value to the audiences of Forbes.com and Enterpreneur.com.

It depends on the type of audience you serve.

Even if you publish just one article per month, make it the best article you can publish:

Re-read for spelling and grammar errors.

Edit, rewrite, insert good pictures.

Give it your best.

In time, you may notice a percentage of your new visitors become return readers (peek into your Google Analytics after a few months).

Even if your bounce rate is somewhat high for new visits, if your return visitor traffic indicates long stay duration (over 1 minute) this means people have found enough VALUE to explore your blog further.

They may have mentally noted your website when they were first exposed to your domain but only later decided it was worthwhile to return. The screenshot below is an example of how “new visitors” scout out an unfamiliar brand…and later read for as long as 5 minutes on their “return visit”! That’s an excellent statistic to notice.

Conclusion

What’s the fast track for more organic search traffic?

Set a goal, publish habitually and focus on offering value in whatever you create for your brand.

Over time you’ll notice you have a regular readership of “return visitors” in Google Analytics. Their on-page time will be fairly high if you’ve diligently applied the tips in this article.

Let us know how much your website traffic increased when you began publishing weekly – comment below.

Writing a 500-word article can be easy and doesn’t have to take hours. This simple tutorial will show you how.

Know what your audience expects

First of all, you must know what your audience is expecting to find on your website. If it is the most up to date information about a particular product, then you can start by using the product name as a basis for your initial search for an article title idea. Sometimes an idea will come to you immediately.

Take a moment to imagine what a great article title would be like on your website and what you’d expect to find in it after clicking that link in Google search results.

You can survey your site description – the one you may have entered when you first installed your WordPress site – for the main topic of your new 500-word article.

For Greatwebsiteplans.com, our audience expects to find a slew of articles about affiliate marketing. So we can take any number of questions that arise for our audience like:

Keyword research – how to do it? How do I know the keywords I found will get me more traffic? How will I know a keyword that can help conversions on my site?

Writing content – how do I write better content and more frequently?

Finding a good affiliate program that pays well – where do I find it? What programs should I avoid and how many programs to apply to ?

What is a good way to get a guest blog post link? Is there a good email template to use?

What can I do to increase conversions and reduce bounce rates? What one tool can I use that’s free to improve my site’s on-page time?

How do I track conversions using Google Analytics Goals?

And so on.

Below we’ve compiled a list of steps you can take to write a 500-word article easier and faster. It involves the use of one key website and the rest is preparing a simple outline, compiling urls with relevant, quality resources and sound advice.

The final step is weaving the information gathered in a document into a single, structured linked up article.

Let’s start!

Use the free tool FaqFox.com (now called WebPageFX) to find a question posed within your topic on the web.

Take one question you believe will be a perfect fit for your audience – the question posed should have enough depth that you could base an entire article around it, providing valuable insight and citations to further knowledge.

Go to the URL (where the question was posed) and read the comments, picking out the most sound advice possible.

Do your own research using Google search, looking for authoritative high quality articles with more links to further resources. Save all these URLS.

Prepare a simple outline – start with Introduction, Topic A, Topic B, Topic C, Conclusion or in the case of a How to article start with Introduction, Step 1 -10, and Conclusion, then Sources.

Write the article and edit. Rewriting the article can bring out even better quality writing as your comprehension and comfort with the subject will increase.

Click the video above to watch a simple tutorial on using Faqfox.com – a great tool for gathering questions asked by people across the web.

Just enter your topic and select the industry or “General”.

Conclusion

Writing content can be easier. With the simple steps above, we hope you’ll be able to compile a set of excellent questions that you can readily answer for your audience.

If you already know what your audience expects (their needs, wants) via Faqfox.com’s plethora of query results – what’s stopping you from preparing the sources and outline for a sweet, simple article answering their need?

With these content writing tips, you’ll have more reason to put pen to paper. Go on, try it!

Suggested Reading

If you’re writing an article that will draw return visitors, shares and bookmarking – check out our article around researching a topic. Apply some of these additional research steps and your article will truly stand out.

Linking your articles is important, too. After you have a 500-word article, remember to link it up to other articles that are relevant and match the needs of your visitor. Is the article about styling hair? Then suggest an article about saving money on hair products.

Sample Article Outline

The outline below can be copied into a document and used as you gather sources, refine the title of the article and compile the best source articles you can.

Make a modified outline for a how-to article by having an introduction – the steps in the middle – then the conclusion and sources heading.